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Technically Legal - A Legal Technology and Innovation Podcast

Percipient - Chad Main

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Frequency: 1 episode/13d. Total Eps: 100

Technically Legal is a legal tech podcast exploring how technology is transforming the legal landscape. Each episode features insightful interviews with legal innovators, tech pioneers, and forward-thinking educators who are leading this change. Our guests share their experiences and insights on how technology is reshaping legal operations, revolutionizing law firm practice, and driving the growth of innovative legal tech companies. We also explore the broader implication of technology on everyone involved in the legal system, from practitioners to clients. The podcast is hosted by Chad Main, an attorney and founder of Percipient, a tech-enabled legal services provider. Chad launched Percipient on the belief that when technology is leveraged correctly, it makes legal teams more effective. Technically Legal Podcast is an ABA Web 100 Best Law Podcasts Honoree.

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The Rise of the Legal Quants (Jamie Tso & Raymond Sun)

Thursday, May 14, 2026 • Duration 34:54

Jamie Tso and Ray Sun, the founders of LegalQuants, discuss a fundamental shift in the legal profession: the transition from legal engineering to "legal quant" work. The conversation explores how technically fluent lawyers are using vibe coding, frontier AI models, and first-principles thinking to move beyond mere efficiency and toward the complete redesign of legal services.

Jamie and Ray share their backgrounds in Big Law and their journeys into building custom legal tech tools. They delve into the origins of the LegalQuants community—an exclusive, invitation-only network of "builders"—and discuss the future of the billable hour in an era where AI can automate routine intellectual labor.

Episode Highlights

Jamie and Ray's origin stories: From annotating mutual fund prospectuses to early experiments with machine learning and TensorFlow.
Ray's background as one of the world's first Legal Engineers and the creation of his Global AI Regulation Tracker.
Defining the Legal Quant: How they differ from traditional Legal Engineers by seeking "alpha" and redesigning legal workflows from first principles.
The growth of the LegalQuants community: From a small WhatsApp group to a global network of elite lawyer-builders.
The "Unicorn Talent" gap: Why the next generation of elite legal work is defined by the operator, not the tool.
The death of the friction-based pricing model and the future of value-based billing.
Stress-testing Claude and Anthropic's Legal Plugin: Why the "ceiling" of AI utility is set by the lawyer's ability to design custom skills.

Things We Talk About in this Episode

LegalQuants Substack: legalquants.substack.com – Weekly digests and deep dives into legal AI strategy.
Global AI Regulation Tracker: techieray.com – Ray Sun's interactive map of worldwide AI laws and policies.

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The AI Pilot is Over: Legal's Moment to Move Beyond Experiments and Avoid the Innovator's Dilemma (Sabastian Niles, President & CLO Salesforce)

Thursday, April 30, 2026 • Duration 40:18

We welcome back Sabastian Niles, President and Chief Legal Officer at Salesforce, to discuss his recent "Open Letter to Law Firms." As the legal industry hits a critical inflection point, Sabastian argues that the era of "AI theater" and small-scale pilots is over.

The conversation dives deep into the Innovator's Dilemma facing law firms, the shift toward agentic AI, and how firms must reimagine their business models to remain competitive. Sabastian highlights that legal professionals are uniquely positioned to lead the charge in trusted AI transformation, provided they embrace transparency, data integration, and shared efficiency gains with their clients.

Specifically, he offers four systems law firms and other service providers must establish if they want to succeed in the AI era:

System of Engagement: A unified digital interface that replaces fragmented tools with seamless, real-time collaboration between firms and clients.
System of Agency: An ethically governed AI framework that scales firm capacity and reimagines service delivery while maintaining strict human oversight and compliance.
System of Work: A trusted, enterprise-grade platform that integrates daily professional applications into a cohesive, high-performance workflow.
System of Context: A secure "single source of truth" for client data that ensures strategic counsel is grounded in history while protecting attorney-client privilege.

Other Things We Talk About in this Episode

The End of the Pilot Era: Moving beyond experimentation to integrated, unified AI platforms is no longer optional—it is a prerequisite for competitiveness.
The Relationship Challenge: AI should be used to break down internal silos, allowing firms to bring their "tribal knowledge" and collective intelligence to every client engagement.
System of Agency: A shift from manual workflows to "agentic" systems where AI agents handle triage, research, and routine queries (e.g., Salesforce's Outside Counsel Support Agent).

Best of 2025: Building a Modern IP Infrastructure and Protecting Creators in the AI Age (Andrea Muttoni - President Story Foundation)

Tuesday, December 30, 2025 • Duration 40:49

One of the most listened to episodes in 2025 featured a conversation with Andrea Muttoni, President of Story Protocol. The discussion explores how blockchain technology is being used as a foundational infrastructure for intellectual property (IP), aiming to simplify and modernize the process of registration, licensing, and monetization for creators and IP owners. Muttoni details his journey from a bedroom music producer to a product manager at Amazon and eventually to a leader in the blockchain industry, driven by a passion for the intersection of technology and creativity.

The conversation delves into the core problems Story Protocol aims to solve, particularly the complexities of copyright, fair use, and attribution in the age of AI-generated content. Muttoni introduces key concepts like the Programmable IP License (PIL), a customizable and on-chain license that makes IP rights more transparent and accessible. He also provides an overview of Poseidon, a new initiative that leverages the Story Protocol to create a marketplace for IP-safe, real-world data needed to train AI models, ensuring that data creators and owners are fairly compensated.

Key Takeaways

Andrea's Background: From a bedroom hip-hop producer to a product manager at Amazon working on Kindle and Alexa, Muttoni shares his path to the world of crypto and blockchain.
What is Story Protocol?: A deep dive into Story Protocol's mission to create an open IP blockchain. It's a way to register, license, and monetize IP in a more liquid and accessible way.
The Programmable IP License (PIL): Explanation of how this universal, customizable, and on-chain license simplifies IP transactions and makes it easier for others to legally use a creator's work.
Introducing Poseidon: Details on the new platform built on the Story Protocol to address the "data gold rush" for AI. Poseidon allows for the licensing of real-world, IP-cleared data to AI companies, ensuring fair compensation for contributors.
Promoting Adoption: Discussion on how Story Protocol uses a web3 incentive model to encourage widespread adoption and create a network effect for its IP infrastructure.

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Best of 2025 - From IP Lawyer to Investor to CEO to Legal Ecosystem Builder (Avaneesh Marwaha, Litera CEO)

Wednesday, December 24, 2025 • Duration 40:21

Avaneesh Marwaha, the CEO of Litera, visits the show to discuss his journey from IP lawyer to becoming a legal tech CEO and investor. He discusses the motivations behind his career pivot, including his desire to be a decision-maker and his passion for the business side of law.

The conversation delves into the evolution of Litera, from its origins as a document-focused migration software company to its current role as a comprehensive legal tech ecosystem. Avaneesh highlights the company's strategic shift from acquiring to building new technologies. He also emphasizes the importance of Litera's strong partnership with Microsoft and the company's focus on enhancing law firms' productivity and client service.

Key Takeaways:

Pivoting from Law to Business: Avaneesh's move from practicing IP law to an in-house role and eventually becoming a CEO was driven by his desire for a more active role in business decision-making. He saw lawyers as reactive to business decisions, and he wanted to be at the forefront of the action.
The Value of a Law Degree in Business: Avaneesh shares his perspective on the value of a law degree for business professionals, highlighting the critical thinking and risk tolerance skills it provides. He notes that the corporate transaction course he took in law school was particularly beneficial, teaching him about corporate governance and fiduciary duties.
Litera's Evolution: Avaneesh discusses how Litera has grown through strategic acquisitions and a recent focus on internal development. He explains how the company integrates various tools, like Kira and Foundation, to create a seamless ecosystem for lawyers within their daily workflows, primarily in Outlook and Word.
The Impact of Generative AI: The discussion touches on the transformative impact of AI on the legal tech industry. Avaneesh explains how AI has enabled Litera to accelerate its product development and introduce features that proactively assist lawyers with tasks like document comparison and client relationship management.
Build vs. Buy Strategy: Avaneesh outlines Litera's shift from a buy-heavy strategy to a more balanced build-and-invest approach. This change is largely due to the increased efficiency and speed of development enabled by AI tools.

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Best of 2025 - Benchmarking Legal AI: Measuring the Delta Between Man and Machine (Anna Guo Legalbenchmarks.ai)

Thursday, December 18, 2025 • Duration 27:34

In one of the most popular episodes of the year, Legalbenchmarks.ai Founder Anna Guo discusses her organization's research that tests whether artificial intelligence custom-made for legal tasks better than general AI tools.

Anna is a former BigLaw lawyer who left the practice to become an entrepreneur and now focuses her energies on quantifying the utility of AI in the legal industry. Anna's initial anecdotal research for colleagues quickly revealed a strong community interest in a systematic approach to evaluating legal AI tools. This led to the creation of Legalbenchmarks.AI, dedicated to finding out where the promise of humans plus AI is truly better than humans alone or AI alone.

The core of the research involves measuring the "delta," or the extent to which AI can elevate human performance. To date, Legalbenchmarks.ai conducted two major studies: one on information extraction from legal sources and a second on contract review and redlining.

Key Findings from the Studies:

Accuracy vs. Qualitative Usefulness: The highest-performing general-purpose AI tools (like Gemini) were often found to be more accurate and consistent. However, the legal-specific AI tools often received higher marks in qualitative usefulness and helpfulness, as they align more closely with existing legal workflows.
Methodology: The testing goes beyond simple accuracy. It includes a three-part assessment: Reliability (objective accuracy and legal adequacy), Usability (qualitative metrics like helpfulness and coherence for tasks such as brainstorming), and Platform Workflow Support (integration, citation checks, and other features).
Human-AI Performance: In the contract analysis study, AI tools matched or exceeded the human baseline for reliability in producing first drafts. Crucially, the data demonstrated that the common belief that "human plus AI will always outperform AI alone" was false; the top-performing AI tool alone still had a higher accuracy rate than the human-plus-AI combo.

Best of 2025: The Future of Real Estate is Here (and It's on Blockchain) -Daniel Rollingher (GC Fabrica)

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 • Duration 37:33

Best of 2025: Building and Documenting Better Legal Workflows: Insights from Systemology Author David Jenyns

Thursday, December 11, 2025 • Duration 43:24

In the most listened to episode of 2025, author of "Systemology" and business systems expert, David Jenyns, discusses the importance of systemizing business processes, even in the nuanced field of law. Jenyns debunks the myth that legal work is too bespoke to be systemized, explaining how just like any other business, documenting legal workflows unlocks scalability and creativity. He shares his journey from digital SEO agency owner to becoming a systems expert and outlines the seven steps of his Systemology framework.

Key Topics:
- The importance of documenting processes in any business, including legal services.
- How systemization can create space for creativity in legal work.
- The Systemology framework and its seven steps: Define, Assign, Extract, Organize, Integrate, Scale, and Optimize.
- The role of a "systems champion" in implementing a systems culture.
- Addressing common misconceptions about systemizing legal work.
- Practical tips for getting started with systemizing processes.

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Editing and Production: Grant Blackstock

Theme Music: Home Base (Instrumental Version) by TA2MI

Future-Proofing Legal Ops: AI Literacy, Innovation and Augmentation (Meredith Kildow, President Consilio)

Thursday, December 4, 2025 • Duration 30:35

Meredith Kildow, President of Consilio discusses her career path from finance to leading global operations and delivery for one of the largest companies in the legal and eDiscovery space.

Meredith shares insights into building a revenue organization from the ground up and the shift to her current role overseeing operations and delivery for a highly acquisitive company. The conversation focuses on the practical, present-day applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the legal industry, examining how it's moving beyond "innovation theater" to drive ROI, efficiency, and cost reduction in corporate legal departments.

Key Discussion Points:

The Transition: Meredith's journey from finance to operations, tech, and ultimately, a leadership role at Consilio.
Revenue Operations vs. Chief Revenue Officer (CRO): Defining the roles and how to build a robust revenue organization, particularly in an acquisitive company.
Improving Delivery from a Revenue Background: The importance of client listening and how a revenue-centric mindset can enhance service delivery and collaboration between sales and operations teams.
AI in Legal: Clients view AI as both a problem and a solution. Discussion covers where real adoption is happening today (e.g., contract review, eDiscovery review) and the internal pressures on corporate legal departments to show AI efficiency.
The AI Skills Gap and Literacy: Addressing the need for AI literacy among legal professionals and how Consilio is adding value through guided expertise, innovation labs, and rapid prototyping.
Consilio's AI Offerings: A look at tools like Aurora, ECI (Early Case Intelligence), and specialized AI suites for privilege identification (PrivGen), review, and investigations, emphasizing flexibility and a secure, private cloud environment.

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Beyond ChatGPT: Why In-House Counsel Need Purpose Built AI (Cecilia Ziniti, CEO - GC AI)

Thursday, November 20, 2025 • Duration 31:22

This episode features a conversation with Cecilia Ziniti, Co-Founder and CEO of GC.AI. Cecilia traces her career from early the early days of the internet to founding an AI-driven legal platform for in-house counsel.

Cecilia shares her journey, starting as a paralegal at Yahoo in the early 2000s, working on nascent legal issues related to the internet. She discusses her time at Morrison & Foerster and her role at Amazon, where she was an early member of the Alexa team, gaining deep insight into AI's potential before the rise of modern large language models (LLMs).

The core discussion centers on the creation of GC AI, a legal AI tool specifically designed for in-house counsel. Cecilia explains why general LLMs like ChatGPT are insufficient for professional legal work—lacking proper citation, context, and security/privilege protections. She highlights the app's features, including enhanced document analysis (RAG implementation), a Word Add-in, and workflow-based playbooks to deliver accurate, client-forward legal analysis. The episode also touches on the current state of legal tech, the growing trend of bringing legal work in-house, and the potential for AI to shift the dynamics of the billable hour.

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From 'No' to 'Go': How AI Guardrails Drive Trust, Enabling Legal to be a Business Accelerant, Not Blocker (Sabastian Niles, Salesforce President & CLO)

Thursday, November 6, 2025 • Duration 24:32

In this episode, Sabastian Niles, President and Chief Legal Officer at Salesforce, takes a deep dive into the intersection of corporate strategy, in-house legal careers, and the transformative power of Agentic AI.

Sabastian shares his unique career path from a near two-decade tenure at a prestigious law firm before joining Salesforce. This conversation is essential for anyone interested in the evolving role of the Chief Legal Officer and the practical application of cutting-edge technology in legal operations.

Things We Talk About in this Episode

The In-House Career Journey: Sabastian's path highlights an early interest in the law and business connection and the role of the lawyer as a trusted advisor looking at the full lifecycle of a client's needs.

Advice for Aspiring In-House Counsel: The importance of self-awareness, understanding your "why," and approaching your work with dedication and authenticity.

Salesforce Legal as Customer Zero: How the Salesforce legal department uses the company's own technology, including building their outside counsel management platform on Salesforce and using internal AI agents in Slack channels for sales self-service.

Understanding Agentic AI & Agentforce: An explanation of AI agents—systems that can reason and take actions on behalf of human direction—and Salesforce's focus on trusted agentics through the Agentforce Command Center.

The Power of AI Guardrails: Sabastian explains that trust is an accelerant for innovation, not an obstacle. Guardrails define what an AI agent shouldn't do, ensuring responsible and ethical deployment, particularly around data access and defined roles.

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